Daily Answers

1-across – Sort of trance finds pussy cheering : CATATONIC

6-across – A don with knot twice untied expresses doubt : IDONT

9-across – See 6 : KNOWWHATTOTHINK

10-across – See 22 : RELY

11-across – Island hospital authorised assistance in crucial blow : HOKKAIDO

14-across – Pure gel mixed on Sunday is sure to stick : SUPERGLUE

15-across – Mechanism Queen versus … thus getting around : SERVO

16-across – See 14 down : THIEF

18-across – Flower for reporter to dispose of and eat? : CELANDINE

20-across – See 14 down : TOCATCHA

21-across – See 4 : MISS

25-across – Church business done in back of bus contrary to canon law? : INSUBORDINATION

26-across – Ludicrous affair not close to church : FARCE

27-across – Last bend on French river requires stamina : ENDURANCE

1-down – Director’s expression of surprise about country : CUKOR

2-down – Spinner about to bowl a fast one : TROLLOP

3-down – Have time to lead London? : TOWN

4-down – Stingy girl approaching bull : NEAR

5-down – Collar’n’tie fouled with oil : CITRONELLA

6-down – Whittaker’s part : ITTAKESONE

7-down – Much more angry having lost part of dress circle at opening of theatre : OLIVIER

8-down – See 6 : TOKNOWONE

12-down – Labourer keeping fit with sailor bringing return : PROFITABLE

13-down – Apocalyptic beast in chalk – sober? Drunk – it should be white : BLACKHORSE

14-down – Advice to Scotland Yard about reporter’s knickers : SETATHIEF

17-down – Among first of collection is gold tooth : INCISOR

19-down – Amin in country concerned with pupil’s surroundings : IRIDIAN

22-down – After trust, after writing : SINCE

23-down – See 24 : WIND

24-down – Aid to progress of Irish success in caprice : FAIR

1-across – North’s devious ending of the royal supporter : THRONE

5-across – Sound of cow giving birth under a diner, perhaps : CARVER

8-across – Stomach 75% oversize? This will flatten it! : BEARHUG

9-across – Crafty threat, during negotiations, of crumbling bun in butter : GUNBOAT

11-across – Reckon sex allied to Nazi doctrine soundly sums up Stalin’s way : TOTALITARIANISM

12-across – See 26 : BACK

13-across – You could drive on it, whip round, then do point-to-point : GOLFCOURSE

17-across – Principal recovered from the effects of county division : OVERRIDING

18-across – Second hit in a row : SPAT

20-across – Be acutely aware Ken has an obsession: to row at sea : KNOWATHINGORTWO

23-across – Snappy press gang getting Jack back on deck : RATPACK

24-across – Sleepers quite taken by this trendy new reporter on the Guardian : INCUBUS

25-across – US TV series is after Stone – Mick Jagger? : ROCKER

26-across – Chair needs council’s tip on summer finance : LADDER

2-down – Bottle each overcome sorrow : HEARTACHE

3-down – Where the cargo space hatch is waiting to be connected? : ONHOLD

4-down – Doubled up three times out of delight : EIGHTFOLD

5-down – Very sad, losing head and going up in smoke : CIGAR

6-down – Hired demonstrators rude to barmen : RENTAMOB

7-down – Strain: it really makes you sick : ECOLI

8-down – It combats angina flutter with a type of blood container : BETABLOCKER

10-down – Passionate, excited – toupee must start to slip! : TEMPESTUOUS

14-down – Monetary vertical projection by party has Ali in a spin : FINANCIAL

15-down – Note rising up worktop’s upright : REPUTABLE

16-down – It never took off and now it has died out : GREATAUK

19-down – Contrived detachment, perhaps, on date : FORCED

21-down – Cap that’s hardly fashionable at party : OUTDO

22-down – Pedestrian type who makes president in short time : HIKER

1-across – Guardian to city of Swiss composer : WEBERN

4-across – I don’t want an article of gold : OBJECTOR

9-across – See 12 : DERBY

10-across – Farmland unfriendly, accepting sailors’ say so? : CORNFIELD

11-across – Man – island – ‘s : WHEELBASE

12-across – 3 race found in 21 : CROWN

13-across – Got to spring down river Tees : OVERWINTERED

17-across – Agree to drop a note to extreme small boy to temporary hangers on wall : GREENBOTTLES

20-across – Special poem found in 21 : SPODE

21-across – Meat keeps in wood, which is no place for a bull : CHINASHOP

23-across – It’s said being ill for a short time creates a scar : CICATRICE

24-across – Being ill like a flower? : INBED

25-across – Most of 10th, right, plus 1 and 12? : ENTHRONE

26-across – Herb added, found in 21 : MINTON

1-down – Two clubs said to be dropped by Tony in 21 : WEDGWOOD

2-down – Boat people need lawyers to get lowdown about setter : BARGEMEN

3-down – Oriental bird lay back in list found in 21 : ROYAL

5-down – Swapped wife for red deer and rabbit? : BARTEREDBRIDE

6-down – Amphibian, nice if working inside, is working well : EFFICIENT

7-down – Boy has his number increased by 995: that will shake him : TREMOR

8-down – Clothes etc around the Row when doing this? : RIDING

10-down – Labour politician and Conservative placed apart in making of domino effect : CHAINREACTION

14-down – See 3 : WORCESTER

15-down – A record has Latin letters : ALPHABET

16-down – Woodlouse’s music player goes round like this article : ISOPODAN

18-down – Revolutionary spy has revolutionary soul : PSYCHE

19-down – Carnivore of former years at sea? : BOBCAT

22-down – Defence of one ending a party : ALIBI

9-across – Criminal job – one’s driven into the ground : FENCEPOST

10-across – Before gravity, the elementary particle giving 3 20? : THEME

11-across – Time when grand ancient city almost knocked over : EVENING

12-across – Essay about getting on – read it and weep! : TRAGEDY

13-across – Entering apartment on a landing using a key : TONAL

14-across – Lurid figure’s incest most unclear? : CLOUDIEST

16-across – Simply a wild animal in the grass? I can’t tell : MYLIPSARESEALED

19-across – Importance that is with Tony Blair finally is in tatters : SENIORITY

21-across – Fairy lights initially bringing danger : PERIL

22-across – Nation at war one beginning to believe perfect, on reflection : NAMIBIA

23-across – State to arrest a disease : CHOLERA

24-across – Classical character, round and huge : OMEGA

25-across – Seafood good to throw out into the road : LANGOUSTE

1-down – Commonly, introductions to orgiastic films XX : OFTENTIMES

2-down – Hellish in Nunhead with untamed environment : INFERNAL

3-down – Reference book breaking rule remains to be edited : SERIAL

4-down – See 10 : SONG

5-down – Report still in the papers : STATIONERY

6-down – Mount starts to trouble rider in its seat : STRADDLE

7-down – Dangerous to cut wire, ultimately : SEVERE

8-down – Describing kiss in rising scream of passion? : SEXY

14-down – Helpful message about cigar butt I found in Panama : CHARITABLE

15-down – Dangerous surges laid waste to fuse, with volts passing through : TIDALWAVES

17-down – Little-brained philosopher’s verbal diarrhoea exposed : POOHBEAR

18-down – Oil finally greases wheels, which is beneficial : LARGESSE

20-down – See 3 : NUMBER

21-down – Moon, showing bum in outskirts of Paris : PHOBOS

22-down – Twelve ducks in the news : NOON

23-down – Solid figure supporting Conservative : CONE

1-across – Fellow islander has right money as cover with two pitches : MANSARD

5-across – Bond live till morning with connection in 12 space : TIEBEAM

9-across – See 21 : NIGHT

10-across – The cartoon spirit? : ANIMATION

11-across – See 21 : THINGOFTHE

12-across – See 1 : ROOF

14-across – Irritable 19 by slippery customer heard as tribute : TESTIMONIAL

18-across – Interpretive, as girl with blokes for cutie, possibly : HERMENEUTIC

21-across – Thus, I suppose, kings depart and go later into battle with suggestion of evil : SOME

22-across – Sticker, about 10 francs, relating to coeliacs’ diet : GLUTENFREE

25-across – With which one may be economical in a quote about time to turn first left : ACTUALITE

26-across – Dutch product, some of it back in Indian region : GOUDA

27-across – Visualise deposits in money : FORESEE

28-across – Beg in letter for party : ENTREAT

1-down – Note how Livingstone speaks of his pet? : MINUTE

2-down – Two drinks in one : NOGGIN

3-down – In sum, a student’s got to come up solvent : ALTOGETHER

4-down – 1 down in cold war feature : DWARF

5-down – Christian heretic in almost banal robbery : TRITHEIST

6-down – Dutch product cryptically invented? : EDAM

7-down – One poor bloke in long tale proceeding in fits and starts : EPISODIC

8-down – Multiple character : MANIFOLD

13-down – They don’t affect us as they stage play with apology for associate’s error : YOUCANTGET

15-down – The girl’s going to take to the receiver : SHELLLIKE

16-down – See 13 : THESTAFF

17-down – He won’t succeed without a fight : PROMOTER

19-down – Game causing complaint : GROUSE

20-down – Skip the orient? : LEVANT

23-down – See 13 : THESE

24-down – See 13 : DAYS